Politics

According to an agreement reached in the first round of Armenian National Congress (ANC)-authorities dialogue, the heads of the respective delegations, Levon Zurabyan and Davit Harutyunyan, met yesterday to discuss the place, time, conditions and organizational issues for the next meeting. According to an agreement reached at that meeting, the next negotiations will be held …

President Serzh Sargsyan has officially responded to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev’s proposals on how to end the current impasse in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, his office said yesterday. Officials at the presidential press office refused to disclose the content of the reply. It was also unclear whether Sargsyan communicated it in writing, as Azerbaijan’s …

According to our information in the near future the former minister of foreign affairs Vardan Oskanyan is planning to establish an online television channel in the framework of his Civilitas Foundation. Moreover, the preparatory activities of the establishment of the TV channel have already started. A quite big editorial team has been formed and it …

“Forbes has been really mild to us,” yesterday told our reporter the former Prime Minister of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan when asked about the rating of Forbes magazine regarding Armenia as one of the countries with bad economy. “Both the Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and the minister of finances Vache Gabrielyan mar the Forbes information… Forbes …

On Tuesday, July 19, co-rapporteur of PACE on Armenia Axel Fischer visited Armenia. The other co-rapporteur John Prescott didn’t visit Armenia because of technical reasons. According to certain information an Englishman killed himself by throwing himself under the train by which Prescott was travelling, as a result of which he was late from London-Yerevan plain. …

Yesterday finally the meeting of the long awaited dialog of the Armenia National Congress took place with the governmental delegation. Let us immediately register that it looked like a very funny and also a tragic event. It was funny because everything proceeded with the scenario of the government – in the hall of the Public …

Yesterday finally the first meeting of the ANC delegation and the ruling coalition delegation took place at 4 p.m. in Erebuni Plaza hotel, in the hall of the Public Chamber. This meeting has not only become the tensest event of the hot summer days but was also considered a historical event because this was the …

“The negotiations on Karabakh conflict have entered a very active phase, and the parties have taken the commitment to reach improvement in the issue,” said the US co-chairman of OSCE MG Robert Bradken during his visit to Yerevan. However, without this announcement either it would be clear that the process is going faster now. This …

While the attention of the society is focused on the negotiations between the Armenian National Congress and the government at the level of delegations the whole dialog process is moving to a totally new level based on the assumptions that the talks between Serzh Sargsyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan have started long ago. And this assumption …

This summer is hot for political parties as well as there is tension among them. The pre-election processed have already started, especially in regional offices of parties. Parties are improving their skills for attracting votes and are recruiting new members. One of such methods is man hunting, which has been activated this time too. Parties …